Sophie Alpert

I build things to help people.
Currently head of engineering at Humu; previously managed the React team at Facebook and worked at Khan Academy.

2020/01/01 Fast and maintainable patterns for fetching from a database
2019/10/24 React Conf: “Building a Custom React Renderer”
2018/12/25 Why review code?
2018/12/04 Metrics by proxy
2018/12/03 Yak shaving and fixing
2018/12/03 Voice
2018/10/29 React Conf: “React Today and Tomorrow”
2018/10/19 Why we host conference talk dry runs
2018/05/29 React Podcast: Inside React
2018/05/21 Type errors with inference need stacks
2018/02/22 Observable programming
2017/09/26 React 16: an API-compatible rewrite
2017/08/26 Hi, I’m trans.
2014/04/02 Initializing on the main thread using dispatch_once
2013/06/18 A near-perfect oninput shim for IE 8 and 9
2013/06/09 Using React to speed up the Khan Academy question editor
2012/08/24 What I did at Khan Academy, 2012 edition
2012/08/03 Preventing XSS attacks when embedding JSON in HTML
2012/07/19 Rolling back to an old revision in Mercurial (like git reset)